Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

ARB staff Staff is evaluating four potential broad elements to the Advanced Clean Transit regulation: Require Zero Emission Bus Purchases. Mandate a fraction of bus purchases to be zero emission technology starting in 2018, and set a goal of complete transit fleet transition to zero emission technologies by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

UPS has purchased another 48 heavy tractor trucks equipped to run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). UPS is the only private delivery company using this technology in its fleet and now has more than 1,100 natural gas-powered vehicles in service. to fuel the new fleet of 48 LNG trucks at the new Las Vegas station.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2013

In February 2000, ARB established a new transit fleet rule for transit agencies which included the zero emission bus (ZBus) regulation. Transit agencies on either path were required to achieve fleet reduction requirements for NO x and PM emissions. The EO has suspended the purchase requirement indefinitely since 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

has added 92 hybrid-electric trucks to its delivery fleet by converting standard FedEx delivery trucks to hybrid-electric systems. The addition of the 92 trucks increases the FedEx fleet of hybrid-electric vehicles by more than 50%, from 172 to 264. Tags: Conversions Fleets Hybrids. FedEx Corp. over the past six months.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

UPS plans to build an additional six compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 390 new CNG tractors and terminal trucks and 50 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. In 2016, UPS used more than 61 million gallons of natural gas in its ground fleet, which included 4.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

UPS announced plans to purchase and deploy 1,400 new CNG vehicles over the next year, representing a 27.5% increase to UPS’ current industry-leading alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet of 5,088 vehicles worldwide. billion km) in this fleet by the end of 2017. UPS CNG package truck. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2013

UPS also set a new alternative fuel goal of one billion cumulative miles (from a baseline of the year 2000) driven by alternative fuel/advanced technology vehicles by 2017, said David Abney, UPS Chief Operating Officer—more than double the previous goal of 400 million miles. million miles from ground deliveries. compared to 2011.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

All of the energy consumed in generation and operation of the station and 100% of the fuel dispensed will come from a renewable source; energy used to create hydrogen will be purchased from a renewable energy provider. Hyundai has researched hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles in the United States since 2000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

stemming from claims reaching back to Dynegy and the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001) that will mostly be applied to fund the construction of a statewide network of plug-in vehicle charging stations, including at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

In partnering with EMD to develop these experimental locomotives, Union Pacific continues working to upgrade and improve the fuel-efficiency of its locomotive fleet. These purchases allow Union Pacific to retire older, less-efficient locomotives, thus improving overall fleet fuel economy and reducing Union Pacific’s emissions rate.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

However, modern electric vehicles have had around a 20% failure rate ( The Telegraph ) since 2000, compared to 29% of ICE cars. But there is still some work to do in the public charging arena and the overall infrastructure while we also wait for purchase prices to come down. Additionally, trucks like the Rivian R1T offer superb safety.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

Founded in 2000, Zipcar operates the largest member-based, car sharing network in the world. Zipcar now has more than 760,000 members (“Zipsters”), with a market-leading presence in 20 major metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada and Europe, and fleet positioned at more than 300 college and university campuses.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors—including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks—since 2000 and contributed 40% to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

For that drop, buyers will save $2000 on the purchase price while also getting combined fuel economy in the vicinity of 7.8 Despite now offering a cheaper, smaller engine option, the entire MU-X range faces a price increase of between $500 and $2000 – somewhat offset by the cheaper entry-level models. Compared with the 3.0-litre

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. At the turn of the 20th century, utilities promoted the use of electric truck fleets to soak up excess electricity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Subsidies and other financial incentives for PEV purchases will be phased out as vehicle costs decline, though some policies, such as feebates, may continue to persist. PEVs will continue to be more expensive to manufacture and purchase than conventional and hybrid vehicles. —Yang et al.

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China EV

APRIL 11, 2019

One of the folks I interviewed was my old friend Freeman Shen, whom I met in the year 2000 or so when he was head of BorgWarner China. I like it that they are cancelling the (NEV purchase) incentives,” says Freeman. “We Some see ride-hailing or ride-sharing fleets as the biggest future market for BEVs. It should be out in May.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

A bill under consideration in the California state legislature would require California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) to include Class III (280 cc or greater) model-year 2000 and newer motorcycles in the state’s smog check program beginning 1 January 2012.

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

JULY 31, 2008

While I'm still sticking with group-31 batteries, I'm going to have to re-open the battery decision since I don't want to invest $2000 every 12 months in the electric vehicle. The ZAP cars have a Discover EV31a-a upgrade, so they appear to like them too. Hopefully this information will help others using group 31 batteries as well.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Senate ceased funding the development of a supersonic airliner in 1971.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Austin’s template calls for cities to initiate citizen petition drives and to encourage government and businesses to issue “soft” orders or expressions of interest in purchasing plug-ins. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today. Last year, U.S.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

trillion pkm by the year 2000, a 100-fold rise. Because the average lifespan of both single-aisle and wide-body planes is just over 20 years, forthcoming purchases of new planes will expand the existing fleet at least by half—and all of the large commercial planes will rely on kerosene-fueled turbofans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The proposed CAFE standards are projected to require, on an average industry fleet-wide basis for cars and trucks combined, 40.1 new vehicle technology will add, on average, about $2000 for consumers who buy a new vehicle in MY. that are projected to require, on an average industry fleet wide basis, 49.6 mpg US (5.87

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It's very important for fleet buyers and people who look at the what we call total cost of ownership or TCO when buying a car, if you are buying a fleet of twelve hundred sedans for salespeople all over America to drive that are provided by the company. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It's very important for fleet buyers and people who look at the what we call total cost of ownership or TCO when buying a car, if you are buying a fleet of twelve hundred sedans for salespeople all over America to drive that are provided by the company. And so fleet buyers essentially spreadsheet out what does it cost?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Toyota launched the Prius in June 2000, and for the first four years, the buyers were a small segment of innovators and early adopters. We can draw on our Prius experience to understand how on consumers adopt new technology, products and the length of time required to achieve mass market acceptance. Michael O’Brien.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. The government itself has set a target to have 30% of the light fleet electric by 2035. Eventually they will reach price parity for purchase (with ICE equivalents).

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 29, 2021

The Rock Region Metro in central Arkansas was awarded $4,900,000 to buy to purchase up to five 40-foot battery-electric buses (BEBs) and related battery charging infrastructure as part of the FTA’s ( Federal Transit Administration) or no emission grant program. lakh consumers in the island city. Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

Achieving our overall goal—reducing fleet fuel and energy consumption and GHGs by three-quarters or more—will be extremely challenging. In Europe, the anticipated fleet growth is less, as are the potential reductions from technology improvements, but the overall percentage reduction potential is similar to that in the United States.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. Department of Energy has purchased an F3DM to take the battery apart. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs. should be illegal for companies to purchase patents for the purpose of blocking technology. AJ is correct, GM has a couple of platforms they make umpteem "different" vehicles on for different brands. Posted by: Escher | Apr 14, 2009 12:49:45 PM another side note. thats right.

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